St. Paul daily globe. [volume] (Saint Paul, Minn.) 1884-1896, 1887-10-29

The Hen. JOHNSON NICKEUS hes an
accOmmot ating pair Of Germs. He should
cultivate them carefully and pr serve
them fCr future contingencies.
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A divisiOnist is by no means lacking
in shreWdneSs. He has his eye OF: the
pie and knows be must work all the
points if he gets piece. Therefore Ee
resorts to all kinds of suhterfuges and
eXpedients. His latest racket is now
being worked in South Dakota among
the prohibitio.listS. 1t will be remem-
bered that in the constitution adopted
at Sioux Falls by the statehood conven-
tion-which has been laid away on ice
there is clause favoring prohibition.
The divisionists are now telling the pro-
hibitiOniStS that if the territory is cut in
twain and South Dakota is atinii as
state this consi tuition will te il,
force. This is Ir lty tough bait to
throw Out-even To prUi.bitioliist-
and is so gauZy that the wind will blow
it to pieces before the Sth of November.
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Editor PIERCE says: "To collect a
tax on railway property not use.l for
railway purposes-tnis, as we have re-
peatedly said, is what should be done if
it can be done under the law; if it can
not be done, then the first legislature
that cOnvenes must repeal the law as it
now exists" Talk is cheap and ''cofl-
sstency is jewel" 1t has been four
years since this law was passed, and no
tax has been collected under it Oh such
property. Two legislatures have con-
vened. Where was the gallant ex-gov-
ernor then? ''One blast upon his bugle
horn were worth a thousand men," And
why was not the law repealed? One of
the most prominent Republican IN n
bers of the council has been heard to
say, since the legislature adjourned,
that had the old territorial officers called
public attention to this law as plainly
as have the present territorial officers,
it would not now be on the statute
books, to the everlasting disgrace OF the
Republican administration.
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The squatters on the indemnity lands
seem to be going too far, and there is
reaction of pubic sentiment against
them. It's all right to Jump onto the
unsettled railroad lands and the large
tracts held by capitalists for speculative
purposes, and test the question before
the courts. But it looks like species
of attempted robbery to make an effort
to gal possession of cultivated farms
which are held by innocent purchasers.
This is the place where the government
should draw the line. Make the rail
roads and the spectators toe the mark.
but protect the men who have converted
the prairieS into farms, lived thereon
and made their homes in Dakota. Adj
just the matter so that the unsettled
lands, held for speculation, shall be sub
ject to ''squatters' right" SO far as pos
sible.
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Senators who represent Eastern states
will doubtless make note in their MEM
orandum books of the remark made by
Hon. JOHNSON NICKEUS. The latter
gentleman declares that Dakota wants
to be divided. and have four senators,
so that the West may he better able 10
ton. Mr.. NICKEUs believes in making
it a fractional issue. 1t will be Il hard
matter to induce an Eastern senator 10
vote for lie admission of Dakota as one
state, with two senators-to say nothing
OF two states with four-whcn he reads
statement like this.
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Whenever Editor PIERCE opens his
mouth as to certain matters he shows his
extreme verdancy concerning them.
His stairmen, that the gross earnings
Tax on the Northern Pacific railway has
been due Tor months shows that he
knows nothing about 1t. The Miiwsu.
kee, Northwestern and other roads have
been delinquent during the pas: year,
under the PIERCE administration. and
throughout his administration these
roads were only required to pay two
thirds of the gross earnings tax. PIERCE
probably did not know of it, being ell
gagged in editorial work.
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Those who are anxious for the pas
sage of the Sioux reservation bill in
congress this winter had better get
their Doodle ready to send to Washing
ton. Doodle will talk this time. Ora
tory will be att discount. The corpora
tons will fight the proposition to open
the reservation, and Doodle is what
they generally fight with.
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